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{{short description|Indian surgeon}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Muffazal Lakdawala
| image =
| occupation = Laparoscopic / Obesity Surgeon
| spouse = {{Marriage|[[Aditi Govitrikar]]|1998|2009}}<br/>{{Marriage|Priyanka Kaul<br/>|2011}}
| website =
}}
'''Muffazal Lakdawala''' is an Indian surgeon and founder of Digestive Health Institute by Dr Muffi, Mumbai, which is the first Indian Centre for Excellence in Bariatric Surgery. He is the chairman of Institute of Minimal Invasive Surgical Sciences & Research Centre, [[Saifee Hospital]], Mumbai and the president of IFSO- Asia Pacific chapter.

He was awarded the first international centre of excellence designation by the US based SRC (Surgical Review Corporation)<ref name="First Indian Hospital and Surgeons Awarded International Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery Designation">{{cite web |url=http://www.redorbit.com/news/general/2020654/first_indian_hospital_and_surgeons_awarded_international_center_of_excellence |title=First Indian Hospital and Surgeons Awarded International Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery Designation |date=30 March 2011 |publisher=RedOrbit}}</ref> [[Mumbai]] He has performed [[bariatric]] surgeries on several famous personalities, including the BJP President [[Nitin Gadkari]],<ref name="Obesity Surgeon">{{cite news|url=http://www.mid-day.com/news/2011/sep/180911-Nitin-Gadkari-Politician-Diabetes-obesity-surgeon.htm|title='We've operated on half the cabinet'|last=Rajaram|first=Sowmya|date=18 September 2011|work=[[MiD DAY]]}}</ref><ref name="Surgery Performed1">{{cite news |first=Rito |last=Paul |date=2 October 2011 |url=http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_bariatric-surgery-the-poor-mans-burden_1594039 |title=Bariatric surgery: The poor man's burden |work=[[Daily News and Analysis]] |access-date=16 April 2021}}</ref> NCP's Nawab Malik, former State Cabinet minister [[Nitin Raut]], BJP's Vinod Tawde and BJP leader [[Venkaiah Naidu]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Now, BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu sheds his ‘heavyweight’ tag |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/mumbai/now-bjp-leader-venkaiah-naidu-sheds-his-heavyweight-tag/story-oLpyEtu4m9J7vDS6VlNzKI.html |access-date=16 April 2021 |work=Hindustan Times |date=11 July 2012 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.thedigestive.in/blog/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-bariatric-surgery|title=Everything you wanted to know about Bariatric Surgery|date=30 May 2018|work=Digestive Health Institute}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Lakdawala was born and brought up in a [[Dawoodi Bohra]] family in [[Mumbai]]. He pursued his Masters in Surgery (M.S.) from B.Y.L. Nair Hospital and completed 3 years of residency programme in general surgery, MBBS from the [[Grant Medical College and Sir Jamshedjee Jeejeebhoy Group of Hospitals|Grant Medical College]] [[University of Mumbai]].<ref name="Studies">{{cite web|url=http://www.aarexindia.com/Doctors/Bariatric_MLakdawala.pdf |title=Studies |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114172322/http://www.aarexindia.com/Doctors/Bariatric_MLakdawala.pdf |archive-date=14 January 2012 }}</ref>

He lives in [[Mumbai]] with his wife, Priyanka Kaul.<ref name="Marriage">{{cite web |first=Mauli |last=Singh |date=8 March 2011 |work=[[Mid-Day]] |url=http://www.mid-day.com/entertainment/2011/mar/080311-Dr-Muffazal-Lakdawala-Aditi-Gowitrikar-ex-weds.htm |title=Aditi Gowitrikar's ex weds again}}</ref> He has three Kids—Kiaan and Zhiaan and Kiara (from his first marriage to [[Aditi Gowitrikar]]).

== Career ==
Lakdawala underwent training in [[Bariatric Surgery]] with Raul Rosenthal, [[Cleveland Clinic]], United States, 2006. He was also trained at the Unit of Gastro Surgery, with Piet Pattyn from the University of Ghent Hospital, Belgium, 2005 and also underwent Training in Advanced Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgery with Prof. Seon Hahn Kim, Seoul, [[Korea]], 2004.
He has also been a lecturer at B.Y.L.Nair Hospital- a teaching hospital in Mumbai.<ref name="Lecturer">{{cite web |url=http://www.codesanddesigns.com/portfolio/Obese%20no%20more/about.us/about.Dr.Lakdawala.html |title=Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala, M.S. |publisher=Centre for Obesity Support}}</ref>

He is one of the only Indian surgeon to have demonstrated live surgery in almost every Asian country. Till date he has performed the largest number of single incision sleeve gastrectomy surgeries in the world. He is the first surgeon to conduct laparoscopic gastric bypass in India. He also successfully operated on a 30-year-old woman with unexplained body aches, to find a live worm inside her bile duct.<ref name="Red worm removal Surgery">{{cite news |title=Half-foot-long worm found inside patient |url=https://mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/mumbai/other/half-foot-long-worm-found-inside-patient/articleshow/44026418.cms? |access-date=16 April 2021 |work=Mumbai Mirror |date=2 October 2014 |language=en}}</ref>

Lakdawala has performed sleeve gastrectomy surgery on Jayesh Malukani, one of the youngest Indian patient who is a 17-year-old boy.<ref name="Sleeve Gastrectomy surgery on Jayesh Malukani">{{cite web|url=http://www.nonacal.com/youngest-patient-undergoes-gastrectomy-surgery-by-dr-muffazal-lakdawala/ |title=Youngest Patient Undergoes Gastrectomy Surgery by Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425112000/http://www.nonacal.com/youngest-patient-undergoes-gastrectomy-surgery-by-dr-muffazal-lakdawala/ |archive-date=25 April 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Pratibha |last=Masand |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-10-25/mumbai/28077924_1_sleeve-gastrectomy-weight-loss-surgery |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115034729/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-10-25/mumbai/28077924_1_sleeve-gastrectomy-weight-loss-surgery |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 January 2014 |title=Teenager takes right steps to weight loss |date=25 October 2009 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Pratibha |last=Masand |url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-10-25/mumbai/28112786_1_bariatric-surgeon-obese-people-bariatric-surgery |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140115034650/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-10-25/mumbai/28112786_1_bariatric-surgeon-obese-people-bariatric-surgery |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 January 2014 |title=Urban and overweight |date=25 October 2009 |newspaper=[[The Times of India]]}}</ref>
He has performed [[Bariatric Surgery]] on the heaviest man in [[Asia]] who weighed all of 285 kg (627 pounds) in Tianjen, China.<ref name="Surgery">{{cite web |url=http://digimed.co/specialist-doctors.html?sid=154 |title=Surgeries Performed|work=digimed.co}}</ref> He also successfully operated on [[Eman Ahmed]], an Egyptian woman considered to be the heaviest in the world.<ref>{{cite news |title=India doctor to operate on '500kg' Egyptian woman |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38238478 |access-date=16 April 2021 |work=BBC News |date=7 December 2016}}</ref>

== Positions ==
*Chairman, Position Statement Committee, International Federation of the Society of [[Obesity]] and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO)
*Board Member, AETF - Asia Endosurgery Task Force (AETF)<ref name="Chairman">{{cite web |url=http://www.aetf-endosurg.com/index.php?mod=boardmembers |title= Board Members |publisher=Asia Endosurgey Task Force|work=aetf-endosurg.com}}</ref>
*Member, Asia Pacific Metabolic and [[Bariatric Surgery]] Society (APMBSS)<ref name="Founder">{{cite web|url=http://thedigestive.in/|title=Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala, Founder, Digestive Health Institute by Dr Muffi|publisher=Centre for Obesity and Digestive Surgery}}</ref>
*Director, Asian Consensus Meeting on Metabolic Surgery (ACMOMS)<ref name="Director">{{cite news |title=Obese Asian women prefer surgery |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/content/29147/obese-asian-women-prefer-surgery.html |access-date=16 April 2021 |work=Deccan Herald |date=7 October 2009 |language=en}}</ref>
*Head, Dept. of Minimal Access and [[Bariatric Surgery]], [[Saifee Hospital]], [[Mumbai]]<ref name="Head of Department">{{cite web |url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/3/prweb8242554.htm |title=Head of Department at Saifee Hospital|work=prweb.com}}</ref>
*Head, Expert Advisory Board for the Men’s Health Magazine<ref name="Head">{{cite web |url=http://www.menshealth.intoday.in/menshealth/story.jsp?contentid=200&sid=5&cid=18 |title=Head at the Men's Magazine|work=menshealth.intoday.in}}</ref>

== Awards ==
He was awarded 'Humanitarian of the year' by the All India Human Rights Association in 2007<ref name="Awards">{{cite web |url=http://www.linkedin.com/in/drmuffazallakdawala |title=Awards received |work=[[LinkedIn]]}}{{Self-published source|date=January 2014}}</ref> and a Silver Medal at Shirin Mehtaji Oration for ‘Obstructive [[Jaundice]]’ in 1996 .<ref name="Awards" />
He was also awarded as the Gold Medallist in Anatomy at First Year [[M.B.B.S]].<ref name="Awards" />

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